The 2012 Maya Meetings
Mon. March 12, 9 am - Thu. March 15, 7 pm
The 2012 Maya Meetings in Antigua will be the first international conference
devoted to the topic of ancient Maya literature.
Please join us in Antigua, Guatemala for what will be a compelling series of
workshops and lectures on the cutting edge of Maya research.
The 2012 Maya Meetings will be held at Casa Herrera.
March 12-14, 2012
Workshops:
Beginner Hieroglyph Workshop in English
Beginner Hieroglyph workshop in Spanish
Advanced Hieroglyph Workshop
Narrative Structures of Maya Texts
March 15, 2011
Symposium
The 2012 Maya Meetings in Antigua will be the first international conference
devoted to the topic of ancient Maya literature. After decades of hard work
at deciphering Maya hieroglyphs from ca 300-900 AD, we are left with
thousands of texts written in Classic Mayan. How do we go about studying
these sources as true texts? What were the different genres of writing, and
how did they vary over time and space? How did scribes design their texts
rhetorically and visually to convey and highlight information? How does the
ancient Maya literary tradition relate to later literary expressions from
the early colonial period and after?
